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JOSEPH Manassas, or nnnssnavanlay Letters Patent Nol 76,928, dated April 21, 1865i IMPROVEMENT INGHURNS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

" Be it known that I, JOSEPH LIEBHABER, of Bless, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, have linvented a newand I useful Improvement in Churnsfvvand Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and clear description of the same, reference being had to the 'accompanying drawings, making a part-of this specification, and in which- Iigure 1 is a sectional elevation of'my churn, showingthe inside arrangement. Figure 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same.

The nature of my invention is to provide a churn of such a construction as to have all its partslaccessible to easy and thorough cleaning.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation. v l

A A is the body of my churn, made of any suitable wood or material, as ornamental as may be desired outside, but shaped inside as shown by line B C D E.

B T, Bv T, B T, B T, are the beaters, set together in the usual way.

Beaters B" T and B Tll are made of two strips of Wood, S W, S W', set apart, as shown in fig. 2. `Beater BT is made of one solid board, S B, while beater B T is madeof one board, O B, perfrated \vith circular holes, C H, in number to suit.

The shaft S H holds the beaters in proper place, in the usual way.

A crank, C It, is keyed on its outer end, while its inner end 'is provided with a thread, screwing into a female screw, F S, on beaters.

The end` of the shaft S H sets into a metallic socket, S K, fastened ou the inside of the side of body A of my churn, said socket being the journal-box into which shaft S H revolves.

When I want to use my churn, I take hold of one of thebeaters, and I screw shaft S H as far as it will go. Then I let go the beater -I was holding firm, and, acting on crank-handle C R, I will revolve the'beaters from right to left, without danger of loosening shaft S H, since I revolve in the same direction I was screwing.

Again, when I want to take my churnapart, to clean or wash it, I do take hold again of one of the beaters,

unscrew the shaft S H, withdraw it. andthen take. the beaters out, thus allowing access to the sides and bottom of my churn.

My object in constructing my beaters as above described is obvious. y

S B, a solid board, strikes the cream, and gives it Va movementwhich drives the whole mass of it against the other beaters, which, composed either of bars set apart, or of perforated boards, divide the cream, and beat it thoroughly in all its parts. v

I will assign nospace of timevin which the butter caube obtained, as I consider, as well as all farmers, that if a good churn, well and 4sensibly contrived, will help towards obtaining the butter speedily, yet the main depends entirely on the quality of the cream itself` A In the above description, I have shown the crank-handle keyed` directly on the outer nd of shaft S H; but,

when a churn of the kind above described is'to'bemade of large dimensions, I reseri'e the right to key on the outer end of shaft S H a cog-wheel, on which a pinion would act by means of a drivingfcrank handle, thus rendering the operation easier to the operator. I

Said gearing is indicated in red lines on fig. 1.

I need scarcely add that my churn is closed by a lid, bearing on its centre a small hole, as usual.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as my invention, is-

The combination of four or'mor'e beaters of different construction', for the purpose above set forth and described.

JOSEPH LIEBHABER,

Witnesses SAMUEL L. TAYLOR, WILLIAM W. Ronnn'rs. 

